almost 9 years later and I'm still passing around Casey West's "Durable Communication" post as the gold standard on advice for leading distributed teams. (Any #perl folks know if cwest is out here in the Fediverse somewhere?) http://caseywest.com/durable-communication/
Tiens, je vous propose une petite expérience : j'ai ressorti des étagères ce Guide des meilleurs sites Web, édition 2000, paru chez Microsoft Press il y a de cela 23 ans.
Je vous propose de l'explorer page par page au cours des mois qui viennent et de découvrir combien des sites listés sont encore accessibles.
D'abord parce que ça va m'occuper, ensuite par curiosité, et avoir une idée de la portion du Web qui a survécu à ses 23 dernières années.
Y'all remember the Wild West that was the early internet? So, after Napster got shut down, file sharing didn't stop, you know what it did? That's right kids, let's say it all together: DECENTRALIZED! This protected those sites from being sued and shut down. It's interesting to once again be moving around in decentralized networks again 20+ years later. The past and the future are colliding in such interesting ways.
I'm quietly amused by people calling Napster and AOL the "early Internet". The early Internet was 1974.
Yes, people are rediscovering all sorts of things from the #BBS days, from asynchronous conversations through supporting one's local sysop to having a plethora of mail reader programs; and (as we've talked about before) big centralized corporate paid-subscription #CompuServe & #BIX versus distributed #FidoNet.
Thinking about my relationship with social media I realised why I am enjoying #Mastodon more than I have other platforms. It feels like returning to the forum communities I joined on #Compuserve back in the mid-1990s where people from all over the place formed organic groups because of a shared interest rather than the "people you know" FOMO we've experienced recently. Just like my time in SciFiMed2 I've never met anyone I know on #CortexImplant but have found a group that I consider friends.
Im Forum und Forums-Chat das erste Mal sozialisieren und die unglaublich gigantische NASA Welt mit stundenlangen (und teuren Downloads der Bilder) entdecken dank #CompuServe (erinnere mich auch lebhaft an die Modemtöne und die Liste der damals „günstigsten“ Einwahlzeiten)… hach. 🥰🥹✌️
"30 years ago this week…something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain…#CERN owned Berners-Lee's invention and…had the option to license [it] out…for profit. But Berners-Lee believed that keeping the web as open as possible would help it grow…[He] eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the #PublicDomain without any #patents or fees."
@petersuber I vividly remember the early days of the web when it was unclear whether it would matter to average people compared to walled-garden services like #AOL (then #AmericaOnline), #Prodigy, or #CompuServe.
IMHO the web’s early rise depended on two other factors:
• Graphical #browsers like #NCSA#Mosaic on mainstream computer operating systems (1993)
• Decommissioning of the US government-funded #NSFNET backbone, effectively ending restrictions on commercial Internet traffic (1995)
One of the things on my to-do list is to post a personal #introduction and today is the day that I will cross that off!
You can call me Sherry. I love to laugh, and am very joyful and fun overall. Wife to one man, mom to one daughter, and grandma. Owner of 2 #parrots and 2 #dogs (1 of which is my #ServiceDog). We live in a 5th wheel in the midst of one of Michigan's Amish communities on a secluded lot in a beautiful area. BA in #music - currently love playing my #Tyros5 and my small #ukulele collection. Use my music to worship #Jesus, am a #Bible believing #Christian living out the Scriptures 24/7 by holding God's hand throughout my life, failing only when I let go. Always aware I am His vessel. “Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent” (Thomas Campbell) is how I deal with most things. A strong conservative politically, I choose to focus instead on the eternal rather than the temporal in my relationships, online and off, and on loving those that God puts in my path, meeting them where THEY are. Love to cook, and eat to minimize the effects of my disabilities as much as I can since 2004. For me that's been #lowcarb and/or #keto and/or #ketovore and/or #carnivore almost exclusively. Been using social media since my #Compuserve and local #BBS days in the 80s, and my interest remains strong to these #Fediverse times because meeting interesting people is such a delight and joy!